Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what participation is there to righteousness and unrighteousness? or what fellowship has light unto darkness?

What concord of Christ unto Belial? or what part has a faithful man with an infidel?

And what harmony has the temple of God with idols? for we are the temple of the living God; as God said; I will live in them, and walk about among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For if there is first a willing mind, it is acceptable according to what one may have, and not according to what he has not.

But what I am doing, I indeed will do, in order that I may cut off occasion from those wishing occasion, in order that in whatsoever they may glory, they may be found even as we are.

What I say, I am not saying according to the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this confidence of glorying.

For if I shall wish to glory, I will not be a fool; for I speak the truth: but I fear, lest some one may consider with reference to me above what he sees me, or hears from me.

For what is that in which you are inferior to other churches, except that I did not burden you? forgive me this wrong.